Exercise bike accessory coming to Wii
- October 12, 2009 14:46 PM PST
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A French publishing company is creating a Wii game that will utilize a Wii-compatible full-size exercise bike.
Wait, what?
There's a French company called BigBen Interactive that's looking to cash in on the Wii exergaming craze while it lasts. One of their offers, My Body Coach, is a pretty standard Wii Fit-alike that comes with one-pound weights as a pack-in. Reasonable enough.
It's the other project, Cyberbike, that is absolutely demented. Cyberbike's exercise pack-in is going to be a full-size exercise bike. Seriously, that thing in the pic? Comes with the game. Somehow.
Cyberbike looks like it's being pitched as a sort of biking sim hybrid. BigBen's press release on The Tanooki touts 18 circuits to traverse and lots of customization items to unlock for your bike and biker. The game will feature a multiplayer mode where people take turns on the Wii-connected exercise bike and a story mode that is clearly going to break new ground in the field of interactive entertainment.
Now, you're probably wondering, "How the hell expensive is a game packed in with an exercise bike going to be?" You're not alone. Unfortunately, BigBen hasn't announced a price yet for the Cyberbike set. Unless they're going to make their product substantially more expensive than Wii Fit, it seems unlikely that the pack-in bike is going to be a very good one. The pics already released of it sure don't look promising, anyway.
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You know what? I'm willing to overlook the complete absurdity of this item, as long as it leads to a console version of Prop Cycle.
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- Oct 12 2009 at 05:27:58:PM PST
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*Enjoys a nice tall glass of milk* Ahhhh, quite refreshing. That bike looks cheaply made... so it probably won't be too expensive.
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God, people who have Wii's are so retarded. First Wii Sports, could be conquered by actually going outside and doing said activity. Wii Fit could be done by ordering videos and doing them, (or even looking up exercise videos on youtube), and now this. Get a reguar bike or even a stationary bike. Still probably cheaper than everything you will pay for the Wii, plus you would have a benefit of a real workout. Makes no sense to why people fall prey to the Wii.
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You all have very negative things to say. While I admit it looks ridiculous, nobodies tried it yet. How about holding off on the criticism until you've had a chance to try it, or at least until it's been released and reviewed. Who knows? Maybe it will be the next big thing.
But probably not.
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